Being Paul Harris…

…apparently means that the day after getting excoriated in print by a famous cricket blogger, you rewrite history by setting a new record for the most wides sent down by a single bowler in a Test match innings (10, to be precise) while Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar frolic past on scores of 143 and 87 respectively.

Bloody hell. I don’t particularly like Harris, but I almost – almost – want to give him a hug.

Also: that whole, hey-we-can-just-get-DeVilliers-to-keep-wicket-and-drop-old-man-Boucher thing is working out fabulously for South Africa, isn’t it?

Yeah, I know. I was just trying to make a point about who they replaced him with, and it was directed more to the people who have been muttering about how old Boucher’s getting and that he should be replaced. Like it’s just going to be that easy. Apart from anything else, deVilliers is hardly a specialist keeper, is he? And who else would they draft in, do they even have a specialist keeper they can bring in??

Meh. I really don’t think of deVilliers as a specialist keeper, and I doubt he does either. There is van Wyk,as you said, even if he is already 31 and so maybe not ideal for a long-term replacement. What do I know, though, maybe he’ll be brilliant…